James Vaupel of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, says the number of centenarians in many industrialized nations is doubling every decade. (discovermagazine.com)
The new - found interest in centenarian Carmen Herrera, who last year had an acclaimed exhibition at the Whitney, seems to owe much to the efforts of Lisson Gallery. (apollo-magazine.com)
Thomas Perls, associate professor of medicine and geriatrics at Boston University Medical Center, is the founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study, which began in 1994 and has included more than 1,500 people who lived to be at least 100. (discovermagazine.com)